Ask HN: Best Second Language after Python

Re:Ask HN: Best Second Language after Python by mathgladiator on Tuesday December 28, 2010 @05:21AM (#2045119)

JavaScript

It can help your web apps on the UI side, but it is going to be a major language/player in the next couple of years on the server side due to projects like node.js.

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Re:Ask HN: Best Second Language after Python by nailer on Tuesday December 28, 2010 @07:27AM (#2045287)

Why is node going to be major? I know it gets a lot of press, but AFAICT it seems to be from front end people who want to do backend programming, or from people who don't realize that there are simple COMET frameworks for other languages (eg, Tornado for Python, I;m sure one exists for Ruby).

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Re:Ask HN: Best Second Language after Python by hasenj on Tuesday December 28, 2010 @08:19AM (#2045371)

I didn't realize what Node.js was about until I watched this video:

http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2010/05/20/video-dahl/

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Re:Ask HN: Best Second Language after Python by hasenj on Tuesday December 28, 2010 @08:20AM (#2045372)

or coffee-script

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